This'll be a merry Christmas for sure. LEGO [email protected] has just put up the entire Hobbit collection for sale on their site. You get free shipping with orders $99 or more. Order by December 18th for delivery in time for Christmas. Full list with prices below:

Lego really are the masters of knowing how to get the maximum amount of money out of us. This is hot on the heels of spending over $100 on stuff I didn't really need over the weekend just to get the Christmas set. Unless the Christmas set is still available, I'm going to see how long I can hold off before getting the Hobbit sets.

Sigh. They jacked the price on the Unexpected Gathering set by $10 from when they first introduced it. And so it moves out of the realm of likely purchase. (It was already teetering on the bleeding edge of possibility for recieving it as a gift. Well beyond that, now.) Grrrr.